Does anyone know of a way of displaying a pop up message to notify the end user that a provisioning template is complete.

We us OS deployment via provisioning and i would like to display a pop up on screen when the provisioning template is complete. Without this end users cannot see when a machines has been imaged and provisioned. They have to call me up and ask "is it finished yet?"

very annoying!! this message would have to display on the CTRL-ALT DEL screen. I have tried using a VBscript to run as my last action in a template, but nothing is diplayed on screen, i have tested a template that works when a user is logged in but cannot get it to display pre-logon?

I haven't seen a way for a popup, but what we do instead is set the wallpaper for the login screen to be a red one with provisioning text as part of it. One of the last steps in our provisioning is to reset the wallpaper back to a defualt windows one and reboot the machine. Then our users know it's done. Hope that helps.

We only change the login page wall paper. It is set in our image that is in audit mode. To disable the provisioning wall paper and allow the default one to be used. we push in the below registry entry.

Hey if you don't mind can you share how you created the task that reverts the wallpaper. I tried what you mentioned by creating a task that imports a reg file I exported so it changes the value back to 0. I am still ending up with the changed wallpaper and not the default. I did however for anyone that wants it, write a HTA that pops up saying that provisioning is complete. Only thing is that it is only shown after logging on, because it sits there till the user clicks the exit button.